“The team": A soft term with a hard, exploitative reality, at least in a call center. Two agents grapple with the term and we were there to listen. After tackling the technical and governance dimension of the call center team in part 1, part 2 tackles the normative dimensions.

"That was always my experience—a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton..." As an astute observer of the rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald made some thoughtful remarks about the inescapable generalizations on the rich at the beginning of his short story "The Rich Boy." Find an excerpt as well as the full story here.

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